Participants: Carlton P. Byrd
Series Code: BOL
Program Code: BOL000074
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00:06 ♪ Jesus is worthy oh yes, ♪ ♪ he's worthy ♪ 00:15 ♪ worthy of all... ♪ ♪ all the praise ♪ 00:22 Pastor Byrd: What's taking place here? 00:23 Paul, yes, is preaching on Sunday, 00:26 but guess what? 00:26 Pastor Byrd is preaching here on Sunday night. 00:29 That doesn't mean Sunday is the Sabbath. 00:34 First Corinthians 16: 1-2: 00:42 "Now concerning the collection for the saints, 00:46 as I have given order to the churches 00:48 of Galatia, even so do ye upon the first day 00:52 of the week let everyone of you lay by him in store, as God 00:56 hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come." 01:03 Again on this day nothing about Sunday, 01:05 the first day of the week, being holy. 01:07 Paul was an itinerant or traveling, preacher, and he 01:10 would go from city to city preaching. 01:13 He said, when I come through your city have the offering 01:15 ready so I can go to the next city 01:17 and help those who are in need. 01:19 Nothing in here suggesting that the first day of the week, 01:22 Sunday, is the Sabbath. 01:24 And in the spirit of equal opportunity, we are in here 01:27 on the first day of the week, Sunday. 01:29 It's not the Sabbath, but you do know you came 01:31 to church and we collected an offering. 01:33 Do I have a witness in this place? 01:36 Who told you that the first day of the week 01:38 was the Sabbath? 01:39 Now, remember you've got to know what you believe, 01:43 know why you believe it, 01:47 and know where it's found. 01:49 Surely, if someone is so passionate that the first 01:56 day of the week, Sunday, or any other day, for that 01:58 matter, is God's Sabbath, surely if you're so passionate 02:01 about that, you can find it in Scripture. 02:05 Where do we get that? 02:08 Well, God prophesied an attempted change 02:13 in his law. 02:16 Go to Daniel, Chapter 7. 02:20 God told us somebody was trying to change his law, 02:22 which makes sense why God would begin the fourth 02:26 commandment with the word remember. 02:29 Daniel 7:25, and the Word of God says: "And he shall 02:45 speak great words against the most High, and shall wear 02:51 out the saints of the most High, and think to change times 02:59 and laws: and they shall be given into his hand 03:03 until a time and times and the dividing of time." 03:13 Now, I wish I had time, because I would break down 03:19 the time, times and dividing of time, which is the same 03:25 thing as 42 months, 1,260 days, or 1,260 years, but tonight 03:32 I don't have time. 03:35 But I do have time to tell you that God in his Word prophesied 03:42 that somebody or something would seek to change God's law. 03:50 We do know that, because the Word says that. 03:54 Now, please understand and stay with me 03:57 here, take some notes, because we're going to 04:01 now show you historically how God's Sabbath was changed. 04:07 How what God prophesied has come to fulfillment as man 04:14 has sought to change God's law. 04:18 The Roman Catholic Church, and I'm not here to talk 04:24 individual Catholics, but I'm here to speak 04:27 of the institution of the Roman Catholic Church 04:30 because there are good Catholic people that are seeking 04:34 to follow the Lord to what they know. 04:38 But I am here now to speak to the institution of the 04:43 Roman Catholic Church. 04:44 The Roman Catholic Church sees itself as the 04:49 mother church. 04:51 When we say the mother church, the first church, or 04:54 it sees itself as an extension of the New Testament church. 04:59 If you don't believe me, go recite any Apostle's Creed, 05:03 be it in the Methodist Church, Baptist Church, 05:08 the Episcopalian Church, Presbyterian Church, 05:11 when they recite the Apostle's Creed at the very end they 05:15 pay homage to the mother Roman Catholic church. 05:20 Catholic, by virtue of its name means universal. 05:24 Which means universal is everywhere. 05:26 The Roman Catholic Church sees itself as the extension 05:31 of the New Testament church. 05:36 So after the New Testament church, Christian church, 05:39 followers of Christ, the Roman Catholic Church sees 05:43 itself as its extension. 05:45 And it has founded that thought process in Matthew, 05:49 Chapter 16:18 where the Word of Gods says: "Upon this rock 05:54 I will build my church." 05:57 And where they've gone in error is, they are thinking 06:00 that upon this upon this rock I will build my church 06:05 is the rock, Peter. 06:06 What they have mistaken is, Jesus, in Matthew 16:18 06:08 is not talking about the rock, Peter, but Jesus is speaking 06:12 of himself. 06:13 How can you found and find a church on Peter. 06:17 Jesus' church is founded on Jesus Christ, the solid rock, 06:22 the sure foundation. 06:24 On Christ, the solid rock I stand, all other ground 06:29 is sinking sand. 06:31 Pastor Byrd, as persuasive as you might think I am, 06:38 I cannot make you do anything. 06:40 The church cannot make you do a thing. 06:43 We can't legalize anything. 06:51 But when there is a union of what we call church 06:57 and state, or church and government, what the church 07:02 can't make you do, the state or the government can 07:07 make you do. 07:09 Are you hearing what I'm saying? 07:11 That's why in 2012 when you hear talk about new world 07:15 orders, when you hear talk about union of church 07:18 and states, when you see us moving to a cashless society, 07:24 understand that these are all signs that Jesus 07:28 is soon to come. 07:29 Because when you study Revelation, the day is going 07:31 to come when the people of God will not be able to buy 07:35 or sell. 07:36 Why do you hear all this talk about uniting 07:39 North American Free Trade Agreement with NAFTA 07:42 and getting currency that is similar? 07:45 In Europe they already the euro and all of this. 07:47 Why do you think that I can now go into the airport, 07:50 buy U.S.A. Today, not with a dollar, 07:53 but with my credit card? 07:54 I can go to McDonald's now and buy some fries 07:58 with a credit card. 08:00 You don't need money anymore. 08:01 I don't need money anymore, because, understand, all you 08:04 need is that card and with that card you better believe 08:07 the government can find out any and everything about you, 08:10 all they need is that card. 08:19 So when there's a union, church and state, 08:23 you have a problem. 08:26 The mother church couldn't make anybody do anything. 08:32 The mother church as extension, as it saw itself, 08:38 of the New Testament church, begins to go down in time 08:40 and the mother church begins to institute things that are 08:45 not biblically based, but are based on tradition. 08:49 But it goes a step further, because in the year 321 A.D., 08:53 write that down, go look it up on the Internet tonight, 09:00 the Roman emperor by the name of Constantine 09:07 puts in the Council of Laodicea, 321 A.D., 09:13 an edict that says on the venerable day 09:16 of the sun in worship of the pagan sun god, 09:21 let all the magistrates in the city cease from working, 09:27 because we're not worshipping or paying homage 09:30 to the sun god. 09:31 And so gradually, what the church can't do, 09:35 the government or the state does do. 09:38 And so now, we slowly see the prophecy of Daniel 7:25 09:43 coming to pass, because the sacredness of God's Sabbath 09:48 is slowly being transferred from Saturday the Sabbath, 09:53 the seventh day of the week, to Sunday, the first day 09:58 of the week. 09:59 In 336 A.D., what took place in 321 A.D. is expanded, 10:08 because in 321 A.D., as I said, it was just 10:10 the persons who worked in the city, but it didn't mean 10:13 the people in the rural or country farm areas, 10:15 because agriculture was a way of business 10:17 for people. 10:18 But in 336 A.D. 10:20 this edict, this command, this law extended beyond just 10:26 those who worked in the city, but now it extended to 10:29 everybody who worked in the fields, who worked in 10:32 agriculture, who worked in rural areas that on the 10:35 venerable day of the sun, cease your work in recognition, 10:41 in homage, to Sunday, the first day of the week, 10:45 the sun god. 10:47 Slowly we see the solemnity and sacredness of the Sabbath 10:51 being transferred. 10:54 We then now go down through the years, and I'm summarizing, 10:56 go to any church and check out what 10:58 I'm talking about, but I'm summarizing 11:01 for the sake of time. 11:02 We then go down and we discover that the Roman 11:05 Catholic Church, the mother church, in 11:07 support of all this begins to institute 11:12 different practices, different traditions 11:15 that have nothing to do with the Word of God. 11:20 Infant baptism. 11:23 Where in Scripture have you ever seen 11:25 a baby being baptized? 11:27 Purgatory. 11:28 Where in Scripture is there anything where purgatory 11:32 or someone is in limbo where they're in between heaven 11:36 and hell and you can pray them out. 11:38 Confession. 11:40 Where is it, why is it that you've got to go confess 11:43 your sins to somebody through a window, plead for 11:46 forgiveness of sin, when the Bible says in 1 John 1:9, 11:50 if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us 11:54 our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 11:56 Why do I have to go tell another man who's a sinner 11:59 just like me and ask him for forgiveness of sin 12:01 when there's no other name under heaven 12:03 where I can be saved but save the name of Jesus. 12:10 Why is it now that in order to receive forgiveness of sin 12:14 I have to pay indulgences. 12:20 I've got to pay money to the church. 12:23 A gentleman by the name of Johann Tetzel has the treasure, 12:29 and he's taken payment from people in exchange 12:32 for the forgiveness of sin. 12:36 So in the year 1570, 12:39 a gentleman by the name of Martin Luther comes on 12:44 the scene, and he says, all of this what the 12:48 mother church is doing is based in tradition. 12:52 None o this is rooted in the Word of God. 12:57 And so Martin Luther decides to go up against 13:01 the mother church. 13:03 And he nails 95 theses or statements to the church 13:09 in Wittenberg in Germany protesting against 13:13 the abuses of the mother Roman Catholic Church. 13:17 Now, you need to understand, this was a tough thing to do 13:20 at that time, to go up against the church. 13:22 But God always sends a Moses in his respective time. 13:28 And so he protests against the abuses of the Catholic 13:31 Church and out of these protests we get protest, 13:36 Protestant Reformation. 13:39 And so now through the Protestant Reformation 13:41 we have a split in the mother church. 13:44 And so that's why now when people ask you 13:46 what part of Christianity are you? 13:49 You either say are you Catholic or are you Protestant, 13:52 because out of the Protestant Reformation 13:54 came all these Protestant churches. 13:59 Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, 14:07 Wesleyan, all these different churches. 14:12 My only regret is that I was not alive in 1517, because I 14:21 would have Martin Luther's sidekick, and I would 14:25 have said, Brother Luther, we can't just stop 14:31 with indulgences, we can't just stop with purgatory, 14:37 we can't stop with counterfeit baptism, but, Brother Luther, 14:44 what are we going to do about the Sabbath? 14:51 What are we going to do about the Sabbath? 15:01 Unfortunately I was not alive. 15:04 But it's 2012 and I ask you, what are we going to do 15:14 about the Sabbath? 15:19 I don't know what you're going to do, but I'm going 15:25 to follow John 24:15 where it says, 15:29 choose you this day whom you're going to serve, 15:35 but as for me, and my house, we're going to serve the Lord. 15:46 Pastor Byrd, I've been doing it this way for so many years 15:50 and I just--it's just been a part of who I am. 15:58 If any man be in Christ, he's a new creature. 16:03 The old things are past away, all things become new. 16:06 Somebody needs to praise God. 16:10 That you came to this revival, this young man 16:13 talking about Breath of Life, talking about know what 16:16 you believe, know why you believe it, know where 16:19 it's found. 16:20 Praise God, you came here and you got the Word of God. 16:25 It may not be popular, but then my daddy told me, 16:29 you can't be popular and prophetic at the same time. 16:33 You've got to call it like it is. 16:40 Mark, Chapter 7, verse 6 through 9, 16:46 audience( preach preacher!) doing the best I can. 16:49 audience (Amen) Mark 7:6, "He answered 16:58 and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you 17:04 hypocrites, as it is written, This people 17:06 honoureth me with their lips, but their heart 17:08 is far from me. 17:09 Howbeit in vain do they worship me; 17:11 teaching for doctrines that commandments of men. 17:13 For laying aside the commandment of God, 17:15 ye hold the traditions of men, as the washing of pots 17:18 and cups: and many other such 17:20 like things ye do. 17:21 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject 17:27 the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own 17:33 tradition." Truth or tradition. 17:50 As was in the days of Noah, so shall it also be 17:57 in the coming of the Son of man. 18:01 Noah preached 120 years and eight people got 18:03 in the boat. 18:04 Clear minority. 18:06 Noah was preaching truth. 18:08 It had never rained before, so tradition said, it's never 18:13 rained before, this man has lost his mind. 18:15 And so, because by tradition it has never rained, why do I 18:21 want to follow this man preaching this stuff he calls 18:24 truth and get in the boat? 18:30 Just before Jesus comes, as it was in Noah's day shall 18:36 it also be in the coming of the Son of man, Jesus Christ. 18:39 But, Pastor Byrd, everybody else going on Sunday. 18:45 Everybody going on Sunday treats it as the Sabbath. 18:48 As it was in days of Noah, so shall it also be 18:52 in the coming of the Son of man. 18:54 There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end 19:00 thereof is destruction, for broad is the way. 19:06 But narrow is the way 19:10 that leadeth into eternal life. 19:11 So, you know what, you all? 19:13 Forty years old now, I've been lied on, 19:20 I've been cheated on, I've been talked about, 19:26 mistreated, I've been up, I've been down, 19:32 almost to the ground, but I learned, 19:39 as long as I've got King Jesus, I don't need nobody else. 19:50 I've got a beautiful wife. 19:52 I've got two beautiful children. 19:55 I've got my Jesus and that's all I need. 20:00 Because as for me and my house, because I love the Lord, 20:05 I'm going to serve him. 20:07 If you have the will, God has the way. 20:24 From Scripture God has proved the Sabbath. 20:31 Prove Sunday. 20:35 But you don't have to do that, because I know you love God 20:42 and you came back tonight because you love God. 20:46 And you came back tonight because you love God and you 20:50 want to do whatever God would have you do. 20:54 It may be unpopular, it may be unfamiliar, but God says, 21:02 my way is not your ways, my thoughts are 21:06 not your thoughts. 21:07 God, whatever you want me to do, I'm going to do. 21:12 Wherever you want me to go, I'm going to go. 21:16 It's my desire to be just as you would have me to be. 21:19 The Word says, sanctify them, through thy what, everybody? 21:22 (Aud: Truth.) Thy Word is truth. 21:28 Truth needs no defense. 21:37 Truth is just that. 21:38 Truth. 21:42 Sa thy truth. 21:44 Thy Word is truth. 21:45 Tonight I don't have any of the pamphlets up here, 21:47 all I've got is one thing, the Word of God. 21:50 ♪ soft Piano in background ♪ God's truth is most important 21:56 because God's truth will do what, everybody? 22:00 Set you free. 22:02 Some of you are in bondage, some of you are chained up, 22:07 some of you feel you're in a prison. 22:09 And let me tell you something, you've gotten 22:12 the Word of God, you've gotten God's truth, your life 22:14 will never be the same again. 22:18 God's truth is most important. 22:21 If God said it, well that settles it. 22:23 On the seventh day God ended 22:31 his work which he had done. 22:34 He rested on the seventh day from all his work which he 22:36 had done and then God blessed the seventh day 22:38 and sanctified it, because in it he rested 22:40 from all his work which God had created 22:42 and made. 22:44 So he did what on the seventh day? 22:46 Come on, you all, he did what, everybody? 22:48 He rested on the seventh day. 22:50 He blessed the seventh day and he sanctified 22:55 the seventh day. 22:59 Remember the what day, everybody? 23:01 Remember the what day, everybody? 23:03 (Aud: Seventh.) To keep it what? 23:05 (Aud: Holy.) Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy what, 23:07 everybody? 23:08 (Aud: Work.) But the seventh day is the what? 23:10 (Aud: Sabbath.) Of the Lord thy what? 23:12 (Aud: God.) In it thou shalt not do any work. 23:14 Thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy 23:16 manservant, thy maidservant or thy cattle, nor thy stranger 23:18 that is within thy midst. 23:20 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea 23:23 and all that in it is and rested the seventh day. 23:25 Wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day 23:28 and hallowed it. 23:30 God said, hallow my Sabbath. 23:33 There shall be a sign between me and you that ye may know 23:35 that I am the Lord. 23:40 Did God change his law on the Sabbath? 23:42 The answer to that is what, everybody? 23:44 No. 23:45 No, he didn't. 23:46 For I am the Lord, he said, I change what? 23:48 Not. 23:49 Therefore, ye sons of Jacob be not consumed by covenant 23:51 will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out 23:53 of my lips. 23:54 Jesus kept the law including the Bible Sabbath. 23:56 Luke 4:16 says, "And he came to Nazareth, where he had 23:59 been brought up: and as his custom was, he went into 24:01 the synagogue," the church, "on the Sabbath day, and stood 24:04 up for to read." Did Jesus change the law of the Sabbath? 24:06 The answer to that is what, everybody? 24:09 No. 24:10 Think not that I've come to destroy the law 24:12 and the prophets. 24:13 I've come not to destroy but to fulfill, 24:15 for verily I say unto you, until heaven and earth pass, 24:17 one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass 24:19 from the law till all be fulfilled. 24:21 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least 24:23 commandments and shall teach men so, he shall be 24:25 called least in the kingdom of heaven. 24:28 I've got to teach God's commandments, because 24:30 I can't be called least in God's kingdom. 24:33 But whosoever shall do and teach it, the same shall be 24:38 called grace in the kingdom of heaven. 24:41 Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. 24:46 Did the Apostles change the law of the Sabbath. 24:49 The answer to that, no. 24:50 They didn't do it either. 24:51 Why? 24:52 When the Jews were going in the synagogue, the Gentiles 24:54 were besought that these words might be preached 24:56 to them the next Sabbath. 24:58 Now, when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews 25:01 or religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, 25:03 who speaking to them persuaded them to continue in the grace 25:06 of God and the next Sabbath day came almost the whole city 25:10 together to hear the Word of God. 25:13 When Breath of Life does its next revival, I think 25:15 we ought to take it to the Von Braun. 25:20 The whole city needs to hear the Word of God. 25:29 Friday, the sixth day, the preparation day, they 25:32 returned and prepared spices and ointments and rested on 25:35 the Sabbath day according to the commandment. 25:37 Saturday is the seventh day Sabbath. 25:40 Sunday, the first day of the week, 25:42 is the Resurrection day. 25:43 Therefore on the first day of the week, very early in 25:46 the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the 25:49 spices which they had prepared and certain others 25:52 with them and they entered in and found not the body 25:56 of the Lord Jesus. 25:57 What's more important? 25:58 To obey God or to obey man? 26:00 As Peter and the other Apostles answered again, we ought 26:04 to obey God rather than whom? 26:08 Now, you've got a choice. 26:12 God didn't create you to be a robot. 26:16 God is giving you a choice. 26:18 But let me tell you something, with that choice, 26:21 for if we sin willfully after that we have received 26:24 the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more 26:28 sacrifice for sin. 26:31 If we sin willfully after we have received the Word 26:34 of God, after we have received God's truth, 26:37 if we sin willfully after that, there remaineth 26:39 no more sacrifice for sin. 26:41 So who are you going to follow tonight? 26:43 You going to follow man or are you going to follow God? 26:48 That's the bottom line. 26:50 PB: In order for Breath of Life to continue its ministry, 26:53 we need you. 26:54 We need your prayers, we need your support. 26:57 To contact us or to make your donation, please feel free 27:01 to give us a call at 877-BOL-OFFER. 27:06 Or you may write to us at Breath of Life, P.O. 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